Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...southeast the going was fairly easy up to the end of the war's second week. Here was the major portion of the invaders' forces, here the faintest hearts in defenders. An early fugitive over the Swedish border was General Carl Johan Erichsen, chief of the 1st Norwegian Division, victimized, he insisted, by false orders to his troops to surrender. Major Hoch Nielsen, commandant of the key fortress at Kongsvinger, was deposed by his men when he failed to order stout resistance. A band of 135 Finnish war veterans-volunteer Swedes and Finns as well as Norwegians-stood...
...Germans did not even originally have easy going. Norse resistance around Bergen was stiff. This week the Allies began to land in force. When British troops were reported advancing as far south and as far inland as Hamar to turn back the German juggernaut, the campaign, largely out of Norwegian hands, entered its next phase...
...Varnes, lies mid-Norway's only big land air base. As the German invaders hustled to consolidate their position around Trondheim and establish a defense line across to the Swedish border, the Allies landed at Namsos, 100 miles north. The Namsos contingent soon made contact with Norwegian troops massing above Steinkjer, near Trondheim Fjord's head. These wiped out a "suicide" force of Germans landed by plane on the nearby...
...Aftonbladet's correspondent re- ported that the Germans north of Roeros were finding the going increasingly more difficult in the rugged region as British fighting planes, operating from new Norwegian bases, appeared and gave battle to the Nazi bombers
...other Nazi force driving northward up the Oester Valley nearer the Swedish border, appeared to be encountering fierce and stubborn opposition from reinforced British and Norwegian forces...